Troubled Writers

[Anonymous No.14911004]

Why are so many famous authors and philosophers plagued by depression, despair, and other forms of internal suffering?

[Anonymous No.14911013]

Writing is a palliative.

[Anonymous No.14911019]

>>14911004
Because their minds are the playthings of Shaytaan

[Anonymous No.14911020]

>>14911004
Most people are, writers aren't unique, they just wrote something and people assumed their lives were unique and worthwhile because of that, get over yourself and know that all writer's lives existed irrespective of their art.

[Anonymous No.14911023]

>>14911004
Writers yes, philosophers no. Their were very little philosophers who were plagued by these things, maybe had eccentricities but nothing more than that. Schopenhauer was never plagued by depression maybe Kierkegaard, doubtful though. Camus neither. Maybe at the slightest Cioran? I don't really count Nietzsche senile later years or Deleuze's suicide(he was in immense pain and about to die).

[Anonymous No.14912198]

>>14911023
This.

Writers like artists in general tend to suffer from depression, anxiety, and other mental illnesses.

Philosophers can be a bit eccentric like many academics but I wouldn't describe them as generally depressed or full of angst.

[Anonymous No.14912777]

>>14911004
People who write meaningful things have a higher intellect, being smarter in this world means increased awareness of the sad reality of our existence and the suffering around us

[Anonymous No.14913141]

>>14911004
i looked exactly like that when I was 22 except for smoking, liking DFW and the jacket was def. sincere.

[Anonymous No.14913164]

Because that's the natural condition of intelligent adults.

[Anonymous No.14913622]

>>14911004
Art and literature is most brilliant when made by a tortured soul.

[Anonymous No.14913697]

Non-depressed non suffering chads are getting poosy instead of being a nerd and writing about sad bads

[Anonymous No.14913905]

>>14911019
spbp

[Anonymous No.14913932]

>>14912777
This

[Anonymous No.14914189]

>>14911004
Holy shit is this whole thread a joke? Get over yourselves you angsty teenagers

[Anonymous No.14914292]

>>14914189
alpha male alert

[Anonymous No.14914337]

>>14913697
This is the true answer.

[Anonymous No.14914856]

Combination of ambition, narcissism, self-critique and too much self contemplation. That's what I feel like at least.

[Anonymous No.14914872]

>>14911019
Shaytaan only fuck with pure and pious people. Why the fuck would he fuck with his own allies?

[Anonymous No.14914928]

Essential DFW other than Infinite Jest? I've only read the compilation that included the cruise and state fair essays, which I found to be pretty good reads.

[Anonymous No.14914967]

>>14914928
Just read infinite jest its his best. that being said maybe brief interviews and pale king but neither are as good

[Anonymous No.14914992]

>>14914928
The Pale King would've been his best novel

[Anonymous No.14915283]

>>14911013
What is the source of the problem?

[Anonymous No.14915303]

>>14911004
The west idolizes suffering in it's art.

[Anonymous No.14915328]

>>14911004
>>14911004
more pain makes sublimation more better

[Anonymous No.14915350]

>>14911004
Because they are losers who used their intelligence to create complicated systems of thought in order to cope with the fact that they are the cause of their shitty lives.

[Anonymous No.14915375]

>>14911004

They think too much.

[Anonymous No.14915541]

>>14914928
I enjoyed broom of the system a lot

[Anonymous No.14915655]

>>14911004
Syphilis, mostly.

[Anonymous No.14915697]

>>14912777
yuck

[Anonymous No.14916813]

to be in the mode of writing something meaningful, you expose yourself to terrible things. moreover, writing demands a lot of thinking and little doing, which also damages the soul. the spotless minds are the blessed

[Anonymous No.14916892]

>>14914967
I love watching DFW interviews

His idiosyncrasies and over-introspection are so fascinating to watch.

[Anonymous No.14916893]

You generalization is clever but not right. Many great authors were happy men, that took pride in what little they wrote and enjoyed every second of existence. It seems that an inquiry over doomer literature was the source for your meaningless argument.

[Anonymous No.14916944]

>>14911004
They stared too long into the abyss. Or perhaps not long enough.

[Anonymous No.14918325]

>>14911004
Writing is a suicidal act

[Anonymous No.14918351]

>>14915303
Uh, so does the east, who is Yukio Mishima?

[Anonymous No.14919634]

>>14916893
It's possible to be an intellectual and still happy?

[Anonymous No.14919818]

>>14914928
Consider the Lobster essays are pretty phenomenal

[Anonymous No.14919823]

>>14914967
How hard is Infinite Jest?

[Anonymous No.14919826]

>>14919634
Yes.

[Anonymous No.14920823]

>>14911013
not all statements you think are true

[Anonymous No.14920832]

>>14911020
this is the correct answer